emaciated

/i'meiʃietid/

Thân thiện

A stray dog with an emaciated body searches for food near a trash can.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely thin and weak, especially because of illness, starvation, or suffering: Describes a person, animal, or sometimes a plant that has become abnormally lean and wasted, often to the point where bones are prominent, due to a severe lack of nutrition or a debilitating condition.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The emaciated survivors of the famine were heartbreaking to see.
  • After months of illness, his once-strong frame had become emaciated.
  • The animal rescue center cared for an emaciated dog found wandering the streets.

Advanced Usage

• "to become emaciated": to grow extremely thin and weak over time.
  • The patient became emaciated as the disease progressed.
• "emaciated from/with": used to specify the cause of the extreme thinness.
  • She was emaciated from weeks of hardship.
  • He looked emaciated with grief and worry.

Variants and Related Words

• Emaciate (verb): to cause to become extremely thin or wasted.
  • The disease began to emaciate his body.
• Emaciation (noun): the state of being emaciated; extreme leanness.
  • The degree of his emaciation was alarming to the doctors.

Synonyms

• Gaunt: lean and haggard, especially from hunger or age.
• Skeletal: so thin as to resemble a skeleton.
• Wasted: reduced to skin and bone; emaciated.
• Haggard: looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
• Cadaverous: resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony.

Antonyms

• Plump: having a full, rounded shape.
• Well-fed: having received plenty of food.
• Stout: somewhat fat or of heavy build.
• Robust: strong and healthy; vigorous.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "Skin and bones": an informal idiom describing someone who is extremely thin.
  • After his hiking trip, he was nothing but skin and bones. (This idiom is a more colloquial synonym for "emaciated".)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   • emaciated bony hands
   • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
   • eyes were haggard and cavernous
   • small pinched faces
   • kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bony
• cadaverous
• gaunt
• haggard
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted